On 11/5/11 11:36 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
> MZMcBride wrote:
>> In a lot of ways, a lot of people have already followed my advice. The
>> people who are contributing primarily nowadays are doing so for a paycheck,
>> aren't they? :-)  That's how broken the process is. The only incentive
>> people have to deal with it is the in form of a paycheck.
>
> I very briefly looked at the last 5000 revisions to the MediaWiki
> repository, grouped by author. I added a column to mark whether the author
> is working for or has worked for Wikimedia. I don't really have the time or
> patience to do a lot of analysis on this. I can say that, assuming the third
> column is correct, 41 of the 101 listed authors worked for or work for
> Wikimedia. That's actually a bit less than I expected. The contribution
> totals are completely skewed, though, rather unsurprisingly. Of the last
> 5000 revisions, 3737 came from people with a mark in column 3 (74.74%). So
> 74.74% of contributions made by 40.59% of the authors.
>
> On average, "paid authors" made 91.15 contributions; "unpaid authors" made
> 21.05 contributions.
>
> These numbers, taken alone, aren't particularly surprising. I think when you
> factor in the number of potential contributors (people with a basic
> understanding of SVN + PHP + FOSS), it looks a lot more bleak.
>
> It'd be interesting to get a breakdown on number of reviewed vs. unreviewed
> revisions for each author or even time between commit and resolution of the
> revision, but the sun is shining, so I think I'm going to go outside. :-)
>
> mysql>  select
>      ->    cr_author,
>      ->    count(*)
>      ->  from code_rev
>      ->  where cr_repo_id = 1
>      ->  and cr_id>  97108
>      ->  group by cr_author;
> +----------------+----------+---+
> | cr_author      | count(*) | ? |
> +----------------+----------+---+
> | aaron          |      371 | + |
> | akshay         |        2 |   |
> | amire80        |       28 | + |
> | ariel          |       34 | + |
> | asher          |       24 | + |
> | ashley         |       35 |   |
> | awjrichards    |      122 | + |
> | bachsau        |        1 |   |
> | bawolff        |       18 |   |
> | ben            |        9 | + |
> | bharris        |        5 | + |
> | bkaempgen      |        5 |   |
> | blobaugh       |        6 |   |
> | brion          |      100 | + |
> | btongminh      |       21 |   |
> | catrope        |      323 | + |
> | cervidae       |       29 |   |
> | churchofemacs  |        1 |   |
> | ckepper        |        2 |   |
> | cryptocoryne   |        9 |   |
> | dale           |        3 |   |
> | danny_b        |        5 |   |
> | dantman        |       39 |   |
> | danwe          |       13 |   |
> | dasch          |       19 |   |
> | demon          |       65 | + |
> | diederik       |        2 |   |
> | erik           |       13 | + |
> | ezachte        |       14 | + |
> | faurethomas    |        2 |   |
> | flohack        |        1 |   |
> | foxtrott       |       40 |   |
> | fptc           |        5 |   |
> | freakolowsky   |        2 |   |
> | gicode         |        1 |   |
> | greg           |        1 |   |
> | gregchiasson   |        1 |   |
> | gwicke         |       12 | + |
> | halfak         |        1 | + |
> | happy-melon    |       14 |   |
> | hartman        |       14 |   |
> | hashar         |       78 | + |
> | ialex          |      159 |   |
> | inez           |       94 | + |
> | j              |        4 | + |
> | jamesur        |        6 | + |
> | jeroendedauw   |      360 | + |
> | jhsoby         |        6 | + |
> | johnduhart     |       71 |   |
> | jpostlethwaite |      161 | + |
> | junaidpv       |       22 |   |
> | kaldari        |      130 | + |
> | khorn          |      104 | + |
> | kipcool        |        7 |   |
> | krinkle        |       90 | + |
> | kwisatz        |        8 |   |
> | laner          |       28 | + |
> | liangent       |       19 |   |
> | mah            |       53 | + |
> | malvineous     |        1 |   |
> | maxsem         |       29 |   |
> | mglaser        |        4 |   |
> | midom          |        2 |   |
> | mkroetzsch     |       29 |   |
> | nad            |        1 |   |
> | neilk          |       51 | + |
> | nelson         |       13 | + |
> | nikerabbit     |      181 | + |
> | nimishg        |        1 | + |
> | ning           |        8 |   |
> | overlordq      |        6 |   |
> | petrb          |       90 |   |
> | pgehres        |       48 | + |
> | philip         |       10 |   |
> | platonides     |       80 |   |
> | preilly        |      224 | + |
> | py             |        3 | + |
> | questpc        |       23 |   |
> | raindrift      |       23 | + |
> | raymond        |      177 |   |
> | reedy          |      503 | + |
> | robin          |       32 |   |
> | rotem          |        5 |   |
> | samuellampa    |        3 |   |
> | santhosh       |       52 | + |
> | saper          |        3 |   |
> | sean_colombo   |       14 |   |
> | shizhao        |        3 |   |
> | siebrand       |      110 | + |
> | smoke3723      |        5 |   |
> | sumanah        |        1 | + |
> | thenub314      |        1 |   |
> | tparscal       |      215 | + |
> | tstarling      |       39 | + |
> | vasilievvv     |        3 |   |
> | vitalif        |        6 |   |
> | vyznev         |        1 |   |
> | werdna         |       38 | + |
> | wikinaut       |       26 |   |
> | yaron          |      123 |   |
> | yonishostak    |        1 |   |
> +----------------+----------+---+
> 101 rows in set (27.56 sec)
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
>
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